Virtual keyboard is not showing

[Frank Phillips <fphillips81@…>]

As also reported on the list, when pressing SELECT with an editable line focused, the virtual keyboard doesn't popup. It seems as though the arrows are captured, because you can't move focus until hitting escape. I'm using the General setup page in the frontend, but also confirmed it in the General mythtv-setup page. It has worked in the past on fixes/0.27.

​http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-January/375470.html

[Frank Phillips <fphillips81@…>]

I bisected this to:

[39686c6] Fix old Qt setting screens preventing them from accepting keyboard inputs

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

Frank, was [39686c6] the commit which broke it, or the one that's needed to fix it?

[Frank Phillips <fphillips81@…>]

It's the offending commit - the commit preceding it was the last good one. I let the word "to" be ambiguous, oops.

I should note I'm on Qt-4.8.6/Archlinux. Karl Newman in the linked thread confirmed that reverting that commit fixed it for him, too.

[Frank Phillips <fphillips81@…>]

Ok, I have noticed that it is the _old_ Qt virtual keyboard in the _old_ Qt setting screens that is broken. The MythUI keyboard in MythUI screens still works. For instance:

Works:
Recording Rules > Metadata Options
Setup > Media Settings > Player Settings

Doesn't work:
Setup > General
Setup > Video > Playback Profiles (Custom filters)
mythtv-setup > General

In 39686c6 the comment is that widget children are disabled on OSX. Maybe this just needs an #ifdef?

[Frank Phillips <fphillips81@…>]

Only tested on Linux, should be tested on OSX to be sure.

​https://github.com/fphillips/mythtv/commit/3a4d946901cc36af5f3354fa9fb3e6c1dd044f48

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

Closing all old tickets in trac.

If your issue still persists, please open an issue in Github ​https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues

and reference the existing trac ticket.